Resilient by DesigN | Bay Area Challenge

A year-long collaborative design challenge bringing together local residents, public officials and local, national and international experts to develop 10 innovative community-based solutions that will strengthen our region’s resilience to sea level rise, severe storms, flooding and earthquakes.

Resilient by Design, Shore Up Marin, Marin City Community Services District and County of Marin invite you to an evening reception. Meet and mingle with the 10 teams selected for the Resilient by Design | Bay Area Challenge, your friends and your neighbors.

This is a great opportunity to informally ask internationally recognized experts your questions about climate adaptation, sea level rise, flooding, etc., and to share your vision for a Marin that has successfully adapted to sea level rise.

Light buffet dinner will be served. Learn about games used to envision solutions to sea level rise and climate impacts from their creators, including Marin County’s Game of Floods and others.

Every two years, the San Francisco Estuary Partnership brings a focus on the management and ecological health of the San Francisco Bay-Delta Estuary. The State of the Estuary Conference showcases the latest information about the estuary’s changing watersheds, impacts from major stressors, recovery programs for species and habitats, and emerging challenges.

Henk Ovink, one of our Resilient by Design jurors, is a plenary speaker and members of our Executive Board and Research Advisory Committee will also be speaking.

This special edition of the Metro Talks series will feature three design experts participating in the Resilient by Design Bay Area Challenge, a collaborative research and design project to help make the Bay Area more resilient to the impacts of climate change including sea level rise and flooding.

This fall, our Design Team cohort will be touring different sites around the Bay shoreline. They will learn about current projects and challenges as well as potential sites to use in the Challenge. Our Design Team cohort will then prepare 3-5 Design Opportunities and publicly present them on November 15th. Join us to learn more about the Design Opportunities and how Teams are synthesizing information garnered during the research phase into innovative designs.

While the world continues to look to CA for leadership and innovation in solving the climate crisis, Resilient by Design builds upon the Rebuild by Design concept in New York - taking it to the next level by preparing for disaster before it happens.

Trying to predict the future of our baylands could seem foolhardy given uncertainty in climate change, ecological “tipping points,” and how people prepare for these changes. Despite this, the region’s shoreline will be transformed in response to climate change and a growing human population. As we plan for the future, we must consider how to manage this transformation for people and wildlife, minimizing negative impacts and maximizing benefits.

Resilient by Design is excited to partner with the UC Berkeley Center for Cities+Schools (CC+S) through the evidence-based Y-PLAN educational methodology and to be involved in the collaborative effort to create a unified vision for a resilient future for the Bay Area.

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Resilient by Design | Bay Area Challenge was modeled on New York's Rebuild by Design, a successful program pioneered by The Rockefeller Foundation in partnership with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Learn more at www.rebuildbydesign.org/.